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title: «T. rex vs Spinosaurus, who won the fight» What is true? — Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they l… · tree and pragmatics
description: «T. rex vs Spinosaurus, who won the fight» What is true? Test 4 of lesson 75 «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

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«T. rex vs Spinosaurus, who won the fight» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** T. rex · **What happens:** win, be · **To what, where:** fight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 75 «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives:t4:1
# text = «T. rex vs Spinosaurus, who won the fight» What is true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	vs	versus	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
5	Spinosaurus	Spinosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	csubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** *in a quote* | past | T. rex versus Spinosaurus | the fight |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They never met: different continents, millions of years apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives:t4:o1:1
# text = They never met: different continents, millions of years apart
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | past | They | different continents and millions of years |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They were best friends in the same swamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives:t4:o2:1
# text = They were best friends in the same swamp
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | They | best friends |  | the same swamp |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spinosaurus won every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives:t4:o3:1
# text = Spinosaurus won every time
1	Spinosaurus	Spinosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Spinosaurus |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
T. rex won every time because it had the stronger bite of the two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives:t4:o4:1
# text = T. rex won every time because it had the stronger bite of the two
1	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | T. rex |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | rex | the stronger bite of the two |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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